Range



NOV 13, 1934- W. A. BUSIEK 1,980,781

RANGE Filed May 3l, 1932 v n n n n firmen/5K Patented Nov. 13, 1934 UNITED STATES lPATENT OFI-icsl RANGE William A. Busiek, St. Louis, Mo. Application May '31, 1932, serial No. 614,451

4 Claims.

The object of my' device is to make an improvement on ranges and more specifically on the frame and portions of the frame, to which the legs are secured. It is desirable to have the faces of the legs flush or in the same plane with the frame to which they are attached, so that a smooth jointure is disclosed externally, between the leg and the frame; also means by which legs can be readily and easily attached to a range should be provided.

l0 The weight of the range must be sustained by the legs, so that there will not be a pressure on the enameled portion of the frame that is in contact with the legs. If the enameled portions are in physical contact, and a sumcient pressure holds them together, the enamel will become crazed or chipped.

It is very difficult to repair such chipped enameled plating. By the use of my construction, the enameled portion of the frame and the legs are not in physical contact, but the weight of the stove is sustained by another portion of the leg, so that this crazing and chipping does not result.

In shipping ranges or in the manufacture of the ranges, the legs are not attached. If the body of the range, therefore, rests on the floor, the body portions are difiicult to handle, because they are in immediate contact with the floor and it is diiiicult to place 4the fingers beneath the range in order to get a manual grasp. Likewise, it is diiiicult with any of the conventional tools used for shipping and hauling. By the structure disclosed herein, the body of the range will be elevated above the iioor, on which it rests, several inches, permitting easy manual grasp of the body portion at its lower edges. By the conventional structure used in range manufacture, an integral angle iron forms the lower frame element of the range body. To this, or to another element secured to it, the legs are directly attached. Such 40 frame elements are difficult to handle and relatively expensive to manufacture. By my construction, this frame element will be replaced by a single angular plate for each side. There will obviously be four such plates and they are secured at their corners to the securing means, which are herein styled corner supporting brackets.

The side plates are secured in slots of the outer frame members and are welded or bolted to the corner supporting brackets. Furthermore, there 50 is disclosed herein, a facile method of securing the legs to the frame or corner supporting brackets. The structure herein described is easily and cheaply made and lends itself readily to mass production. y55A With these and other objects in View, my invention has relation to certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, pointed o ut in the claims and illustrated inthe drawing, in whichV 'g 'Y Fig. '1 is a front elevation of two legs and a. portion of the frame of a range with the front broken away, exhibiting a section in one portion.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of one corner of the range.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig.y 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-,5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the corner supporting brackets used in my device. v

Numerals 7 designate the legs having the toes 8 7n and the two faces'9 and 10, formed at right angles with each other: The upper portion of the faces 10 are enlarged as-shown at 11. the inner corner of the legs 7, a small distance from the top, is formed the support 12, which is cast on to the inner sides of the faces 9 and 10. The supports l2 are positioned near the top of the legs 7. Immediately above the support 12'on `each of the faces 9 and l0, are formed the projections 13 and 14, into which are secured the, threaded screw Shanks 15 and 16.

Numeral 17 designates spacing elements vsecured to the inside surfaces ofthe faces 9 and l0 and in spaced relationship with the top of the plate. In the corner, the spacing element 17 .35 is cut away and in this cut away portion is secured the threaded shank 19. -`The legs 7 are selectively secured to the corner supporting brackets 20, each of which consists of an integral element having the angular lateral plates 21 and 22, which are joined in planes at, right angles to each other. The rightl angle corner between the angular lateral plates 21 and 22 is cut off, so that the angular lateral plates 21 and 22 are joined together by means of the connecting portions 23. g

Numeral 24 designates a iiange formed on Athe angular lateral plate 21 at its upper edge and at right angles to the angular lateral plate 21.

Numeral 25 designates a flange similarly formed on the angular lateral plate 22 and in a plane at right angles thereto. Numeral 26 designates a flange formed at the lower edge of the angular lateral plate 21 and in a plane at right angles to the angular lateral plate 21. Numeral 27 designates a iiange similarly formed on the angular lateral plate 22 and in a plane at rightangles to the angular lateral plate 22. The flanges 26 and 27 are cut away, as shown at 27 and 28.

Numeral 29 designates the depending leg securing portion, which is a depending continuation of the angular lateral plates 21 and 22. The sides of the depending leg securing portion 29 are in planes at right angles to each other, but their jointure is beveled off on the outside and the inner surface is curved. In the curved portion of the connecting portion 23 is formed a hole 23. In the lower portions of the depending leg securing portion 29, at eachside, are formed the slots 29 and 3G. In the iianges 27 are formed the holes 31 and 32. In 'th'e "iTa'ng'' 26 are formed the holes 33 and 34. In the lateral plate 21 is formed the hole 35. In the lateral plate 22 is formed the hole 36.

In order to secure the legs 7 `to the corner,

is engaged and pushed through'tlie fliolf'28- and the threaded screw shank is placed in the slot 30 and the threaded screw shank lvpla'ced" in the slot 29.y By this engagement the depending leg securing llg'nrtion 29re`sts on the support 12 and its side members are held in spaced relationship with the Vsides of the legs 7, vby means of the projections 13 vand 14 and the Yspacing elements 43. Inorder to make this connection positive, winged nuts are screwed on the vthreaded shanks Y15, 1`6 and 19. The method used in describing the s'tigucture, is not that used in assemblingtherang'e, butthe method of description was adopted, because the structure'4 will` more easily `be.funderst'ood by beginning at the bottom witl'fthel description and moving upward.

f Numeral 37 ldesignates the front frame covering element, which consists of the angle iron 38 vforn'ied integralwith the angle iron 39. The angle iron 39 has a U section and theangle iron 38 has a U section. The inner upward portion of the angle iron 38 is bent at right angles upwardlyr and the inner portion `of the angle iron`39is bent at right angles laterally inwardly. this nieansa countersunk portion is formed on the inner sidesv of the angle irons 39 and 38. In this countersunk portion, the oven door, not shown, lits. The slot 40 in the countersunk portion of the angle iron 39 indicates the hinge slot for the door.

" 4Numeral 4l designates the side wall of the body of the range and has its lower face bent at right angles to itself 'for jointure With the flange 270i the corner supporting brackets 20, which is joined to this ange by means of vbolts passin'gthrough holes in itself and through the holes 431an'd 32 formed in the flange 27. The frontedge ofthe sidewall l41 is likewise bent at right angles to itself and is secured to the frontwall covering element 37 by means of the screw 42. In order to completethe frame element, that is to connect the corner supporting brackets 20 on the four sides of the body portion of the range, rectangular bars 43 are welded to the outsides of the angular lateral plates 21 29 and 30 in the depending leg securing por- "ti'2`9, rather than circular holes, otherwise,

itwould not be possible to move the threaded screw shanks 15 and 16 suiciently in order .tc'rengage them, as has been indicated.

What I claim is: y V1I Ih 'a strii'cture of the character described a to said frame, said bracket having depending leg A"seci'iririgportions, said leg securing portions having slots formed therein, said leg securing portions being joined together by a connecting porion.

l2.In a structure of the character describeda body frame, a corner supporting bracket attached to said frame, said'brac'ket havingy depending leg securing portions, said leg securing portions lhaving slotsforrned therein, said leg securing rportions beir'igjoined ytogether by a connectingprtio'n,legs, and means of securing said legs tothe leg securing portions depending from said bracket.

3. In a structure of the character ydescribed a body `frame, a' cornei"sul'jpoiftingV bracket attached to'said frame, said bracket having depending leg securing portions, saidleg securing portions having slots formed therein, saidlegsecuringfportions being joined together 'by aconne'cting portion, legs, and nieans'o'f'se'curing'said legs to the leg securing portions 'depending 'from Asaid bracket, said means comprising threaded screw shanks so positionedthat they may be placed through the slots in'the le'gs'e'cii'r'ing portions of said bracket andfthr'ough a hole'intlie connecting 'portion of the leg securing .portions of vsaid bracket.

'4. kIn, a structure of the character described 'a body frame, a corner supporting 'bracket attached to said" frame, said bracket" having depending v.leg

securing'portions, said leg securing portions'having slots formed! therein, said leg's'e'curin'g'ip'ori tons'bein'g joined together bya connecting 'portion, legs, and means of 'securing vsaid legs to the 'leg securing portions depending from' said bracket, `said means comprising threade'dscrew shanks` sofpositioned that "they may be placed through the'slots inthe leg securing portions oi-` les lil-5 

